SWOOPING

What SWOOPING Means

SWOOPING is a form of SWOOP, which means:

1. noun: (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale“the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides”
2. noun: a very rapid raid
3. verb: move down on as if in an attack“The raptor swooped down on its prey”
4. verb: move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SWOOPING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 W4 O1 O1 P3 I1 N1 G2.

Anagrams of SWOOPING (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In SWOOPING

163 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

7 letter words (2)

6 letter words (12)

5 letter words (29)

4 letter words (56)

3 letter words (47)

2 letter words (17)

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